PROJECT DESCRIPTIONWE Architecture has, in collaboration with GPP, Rambøll and SLA created a safe, comfortable nursing home in which to provide care to the future senior residents of the Esbjerg Municipality.

Krebsestien is part of a new elderly-friendly neighborhood that offers a social environment. The concept of Krebsestien is established in support of a de-institutionalised retirement home environment, giving residents the comfortable feeling of living within their own home, yet receiving the care that they need within the town.

The town is designed as a car free area, where residents can move around safely. A dementia home is located in the center of the town surrounded by small green areas and senior homes. The dementia home houses a mall section consisting of stores, cafes and a gym, which will function as the town’s main center and invite all residents in. Each building has an innovating common room covered with glass façades. The common rooms are all placed with a view of Fredskoven, allowing the residents physically to feel closer to nature. The idea of the rooms is to combine inside and outside areas and create a heart where residents can come together as a community. The rooms are divided in an inside and outside section where residents get to experience nature in their everyday lives.

The housings’ idiom is rooted in the functional Danish culture, this also being enhanced with a contemporary aesthetic. The development makes use of natural materials in the form of tiles, a timeless architectural expression that has been directly informed by the scale, rhythm and appearance of the context.